Half-Life: Alyx is barely a month out now, scheduled to launch on March 23rd. When it was initially introduced as a VR-only title, Valve’s personal Index VR headset shortly flew off physical shelves and was totally offered out on-line by mid-January in all 31 international locations the place it’s offered. As reported by Road To VR, the Index remains to be all however offered out globally.
At current, the one obtainable model of the Valve Index that appears to be obtainable is the headset-only model (sans controllers and base station) offered in Japan. For the previous month, Valve’s Index page has allowed clients to enroll in an e mail notification when units are again in inventory. According to Road To VR, they’ve but to listen to studies of anybody signed up for an notification having obtained a again in inventory e mail.
Road To VR have speculated that there is likely to be an underlying cause for the Index’s availability slowing to what seems like a whole halt as an alternative of a trickle. Valve might be overhauling or transferring its manufacturing line to accommodate demand for the units that Half-Life: Alyx has created. Valve not too long ago indicated in a tweet about Alyx’s upcoming launch that it might share extra details about Index availability quickly, although till they do causes for the scarcity are speculative.
Pre-Order bonuses for anybody who has bought a Valve Index will begin rolling out the week of March 2nd, starting with Steam VR Home environments impressed by areas in Half-Life: Alyx. We could have extra info on upcoming Valve Index availability quickly. pic.twitter.com/wICU1e9HhF
— Valve (@valvesoftware) February 13, 2020
Although the Valve purists are presumably all for taking part in the brand new Half-Life game on the corporate’s personal {hardware}, you don’t really want to make use of Valve’s headset to play Half-Life: Alyx. Valve have confirmed that Alyx will run on any PC-compatible VR headset together with the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, and others.
If you desire a shot at considered one of Valve’s headsets once they arrive again on the digital shelf, you possibly can join a again in inventory alert on Valve’s website.
